The reason I bought an m200 series is specifically because it runs off an AAA battery. I figured it wouldn't crap out on me after a year since the battery is easily replaceable, unlike all the devices with built-in lithium batteries.
It still works perfectly, and I still use it, at least at my drawing desk. I'm also finding it very difficult to part with it, despite the lack of storage.
The real problem is that once all that memory is allocated, it never gets let go. It' perfectly fine to say that your copy of Firefox doesn't exceed 300 MB of memory usage in most cases, but if it does, only a restart can fix it. That may not be a "leak" in the traditional sense, which is why the geeks are upset about the meme, but the end result is the same. The problem is very much real, and has been for, oh... about 8 years!
AdBlock is greediest memory hog. After enabling that one extension, 10 minutes of browsing bloats memory usage to beyond 1GB and the browser slows down BIG time... to the point where it's practically unusable.
The issue appear to still be the JavaScript heap. Close all tabs and point your last open window to "about:blank". Then look at "about:memory". Almost all memory usage, probably several hundreds of MB, will be in the JS heap, not caches. I understand that a large part of the Firefox UI relies on JavaScript, but if you close all web pages, I would expect most memory, or at least a reasonable amount, to be released. If you're using an AdBlock-enabled version of Firefox which has allocated 1.5 GB of memory and then do the "about:blank" test, memory usage doesn't go down at all, despite the fact the browser isn't showing any live content.
The infamous "pausing" problems are also still present. They occur only when Firefox has allocated a huge amount of memory, and are probably related to either garbage collection or session state saves. Firefox really needs some sanity checks, or at least some tweaks so massive memory usage doesn't kill performance.
My brother-in-law doesn't have a dedicated GPS in his car. He says he doesn't need it since he has his iPhone with him all the time. The problem is that when I'm driving and I need him to navigate, he keeps the iPhone tucked away 95% of the time. His justification? "I don't want to use up the battery."
I'll stick to my Garmin. It was cheap and works ten times better.
I for one don't understand how people so easily adapt to the practice of having to plug in their laptops and phones every couple hours, gravitate towards wall sockets, and lug around their wall warts all day (and leave them all over the place where you can trip over them).
Such toggles lead to low-use code paths in the OS, which means they don't get nearly the same amount of testing and they increase the complexity of the underlying software, increasing the risk of bugs in both settings
What testing? It's pretty solidly accepted that the last few iterations of iOS/OSX have been the buggiest in a long time.
After the iOS 8 update, scores of people on DeviantArt and other art sites I frequent said they were unable to upload any images from their Apple devices. Indeed, that was due to an OS bug. How the hell does something as fundamental to standards compliance get overlooked by QA?
To me, this demo is serious uncanny valley territory.
When I was composing MOD music on my Amiga back in the late 80's, I was very much aware of the problem of playing the same instrument on the left and right channels at the same time, especially when doing pitch slides. You got all kinds of weird interference problems, or the audio version of moire effects, if you will. If you were good composer, it could be used to good effect in music in a lot of cases, but most of the time it was a real pain, especially with sound effects in games.
I hear plenty of that in this demo, and it's far different and more annoying than actual reverb. As it is, the sound is just too "off" for me to consider it an improvement, and just like 3D sound, I'd have this feature turned off.
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Every time I update PHP on my Windows dev box, I have to re-arrange the order of the extensions in the config file to get PHP to start. Apparently, if you use any extensions that aren't enabled in a vanilla install, the default order of the extensions results in dependency issues. The helpful, paraphrased error message I get is something like, "PHP can't load this extension".
Yes, I know I'm talking about the Windows version, but installing PHP still isn't as simple as just unzipping an archive.
Then again, I've learned not to trust anything in PHP that is designed to make it portable across OSes. I used to use PHP_EOL to determine which newline style to use in my text files. On more than one occasion, PHP_EOL was broken and produced UN*X newlines.
"Pop" is too kind a term. What usually happens is that the screen darkens, and an animated box will slowly scroll into view, then the ad will fade into the box, followed my more JQuery-ish transitions before the close gadget (if you can recognize it as such) finally comes last. Click the close gadget, and the whole thing proceeds in reverse. Really nice when combined with paginated content!
Once I see a page darken, I immediately hit F5. If it darkens again, I close the window. There are actually some sites on the Internet where I intentionally disable AdBlock, but I won't tolerate any site that attempts to block content on purpose.
Well, for one thing, the TV program usually starts before the ads, so I can at least see some of the show to determine whether it's worth watching. With Internet videos, the ads come first.
Without AdBlock, I spend a LOT more time watching ads being interrupted by content, not the other way around.
It's been known for a while that if you place a banjo mute or any other metal object directly on the bridge, not only does it mute the volume but it also eliminates the characteristic, metallic ring. Placing objects anywhere else along the strings, pot, or even on the drum has little to no effect. The "valley" created by the bridge pressing into the drum is surprisingly small, so only a very small area of the drum affects the behavior of the bridge.
The bridge is what defines the sound of the banjo, and using differently shaped bridges has a bigger impact than using different drum materials.
It's a shame I lost most of the strength in my fingers over the years. I tried different setups for my banjo, but I could never actually play it. It's a wonderful and fascinating instrument.
Only 4.8 per 100,000? I'm not sure that justifies talks about gun control. It might, however, justify talks about how to get rid of the slums that breed so many violent people in the first place.
I just bought a 2015 Subaru WRX with electric steering, and the feel is pretty incredible. Way better and gives much more feedback than my old 2005 WRX with hydraulic steering. People are still saying good things about the electric steering in the Subaru BRZ, too.
It wasn't long ago that all American cars were very soft and all drove like boats. Whether the technology works or not has little to do with the mechanics and more to do with the tuning and manufacturer's priorities. Thankfully, Ford has shaped up a lot since the 2008 economic crash,and they'll probably do it well. I'm not sure how GM and Chrysler would fare.
Fluid simulations have shows that vortexes spinning in the opposite direction of a planet's rotation tend to continue spinning in a stable manner, and will eventually consolidate into a single vortex. Vortexes spinning with the planet's rotation will dissipate.
I assume something similar explains the hexagonal shape of the storm at the pole of Saturn.
The one that can still feed himself for a few months if he breaks a leg.
I'm not a very materialistic person and I don't make much money, but I do very much understand the concepts of emergency buffers and retirement savings.
I have huge issues with Firefox, mostly with regards to memory management. However, stability is not one of them. I have maybe one or two crashes a year, and that's with a minimal, carefully culled selection of extensions.
The big disappointment is AdBlock Plus. This extension is the source of most slowdowns, and after the v27 update, AdBlock slows Firefox down to a crawl, and sucks up so much memory that regular restarts are needed to keep the browser from going berserk due to running out of memory.
I do know that AdBlock merely aggravates Firefox's memory management issues, though, rather than causing them. On its own, Firefox will still choke itself to death over time, and it appears to be related to its JavaScript engine.
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Space is a giant roll of bubble wrap?
The reason I bought an m200 series is specifically because it runs off an AAA battery. I figured it wouldn't crap out on me after a year since the battery is easily replaceable, unlike all the devices with built-in lithium batteries.
It still works perfectly, and I still use it, at least at my drawing desk. I'm also finding it very difficult to part with it, despite the lack of storage.
Wait... that's not a bite out of the Apple logo?
The real problem is that once all that memory is allocated, it never gets let go. It' perfectly fine to say that your copy of Firefox doesn't exceed 300 MB of memory usage in most cases, but if it does, only a restart can fix it. That may not be a "leak" in the traditional sense, which is why the geeks are upset about the meme, but the end result is the same. The problem is very much real, and has been for, oh... about 8 years!
AdBlock is greediest memory hog. After enabling that one extension, 10 minutes of browsing bloats memory usage to beyond 1GB and the browser slows down BIG time... to the point where it's practically unusable.
The issue appear to still be the JavaScript heap. Close all tabs and point your last open window to "about:blank". Then look at "about:memory". Almost all memory usage, probably several hundreds of MB, will be in the JS heap, not caches. I understand that a large part of the Firefox UI relies on JavaScript, but if you close all web pages, I would expect most memory, or at least a reasonable amount, to be released. If you're using an AdBlock-enabled version of Firefox which has allocated 1.5 GB of memory and then do the "about:blank" test, memory usage doesn't go down at all, despite the fact the browser isn't showing any live content.
The infamous "pausing" problems are also still present. They occur only when Firefox has allocated a huge amount of memory, and are probably related to either garbage collection or session state saves. Firefox really needs some sanity checks, or at least some tweaks so massive memory usage doesn't kill performance.
My brother-in-law doesn't have a dedicated GPS in his car. He says he doesn't need it since he has his iPhone with him all the time. The problem is that when I'm driving and I need him to navigate, he keeps the iPhone tucked away 95% of the time. His justification? "I don't want to use up the battery."
I'll stick to my Garmin. It was cheap and works ten times better.
I for one don't understand how people so easily adapt to the practice of having to plug in their laptops and phones every couple hours, gravitate towards wall sockets, and lug around their wall warts all day (and leave them all over the place where you can trip over them).
Such toggles lead to low-use code paths in the OS, which means they don't get nearly the same amount of testing and they increase the complexity of the underlying software, increasing the risk of bugs in both settings
What testing? It's pretty solidly accepted that the last few iterations of iOS/OSX have been the buggiest in a long time.
After the iOS 8 update, scores of people on DeviantArt and other art sites I frequent said they were unable to upload any images from their Apple devices. Indeed, that was due to an OS bug. How the hell does something as fundamental to standards compliance get overlooked by QA?
Old:
"Can I have that without onions?"
"Sure."
New:
"Can I have that without onions?"
"Why would you want that? Everybody else loves onions! Try them; you'll love them! Here you go!"
So that's why the damn cartridges run out so fast.
To me, this demo is serious uncanny valley territory.
When I was composing MOD music on my Amiga back in the late 80's, I was very much aware of the problem of playing the same instrument on the left and right channels at the same time, especially when doing pitch slides. You got all kinds of weird interference problems, or the audio version of moire effects, if you will. If you were good composer, it could be used to good effect in music in a lot of cases, but most of the time it was a real pain, especially with sound effects in games.
I hear plenty of that in this demo, and it's far different and more annoying than actual reverb. As it is, the sound is just too "off" for me to consider it an improvement, and just like 3D sound, I'd have this feature turned off.
Every time I update PHP on my Windows dev box, I have to re-arrange the order of the extensions in the config file to get PHP to start. Apparently, if you use any extensions that aren't enabled in a vanilla install, the default order of the extensions results in dependency issues. The helpful, paraphrased error message I get is something like, "PHP can't load this extension".
Yes, I know I'm talking about the Windows version, but installing PHP still isn't as simple as just unzipping an archive.
Then again, I've learned not to trust anything in PHP that is designed to make it portable across OSes. I used to use PHP_EOL to determine which newline style to use in my text files. On more than one occasion, PHP_EOL was broken and produced UN*X newlines.
"Pop" is too kind a term. What usually happens is that the screen darkens, and an animated box will slowly scroll into view, then the ad will fade into the box, followed my more JQuery-ish transitions before the close gadget (if you can recognize it as such) finally comes last. Click the close gadget, and the whole thing proceeds in reverse. Really nice when combined with paginated content!
Once I see a page darken, I immediately hit F5. If it darkens again, I close the window. There are actually some sites on the Internet where I intentionally disable AdBlock, but I won't tolerate any site that attempts to block content on purpose.
Well, for one thing, the TV program usually starts before the ads, so I can at least see some of the show to determine whether it's worth watching. With Internet videos, the ads come first.
Without AdBlock, I spend a LOT more time watching ads being interrupted by content, not the other way around.
I used to argue like this, too, but the rest of the world seems to be catching up to Apple's tactics real fast.
It's been known for a while that if you place a banjo mute or any other metal object directly on the bridge, not only does it mute the volume but it also eliminates the characteristic, metallic ring. Placing objects anywhere else along the strings, pot, or even on the drum has little to no effect. The "valley" created by the bridge pressing into the drum is surprisingly small, so only a very small area of the drum affects the behavior of the bridge.
The bridge is what defines the sound of the banjo, and using differently shaped bridges has a bigger impact than using different drum materials.
It's a shame I lost most of the strength in my fingers over the years. I tried different setups for my banjo, but I could never actually play it. It's a wonderful and fascinating instrument.
They have more confidence in cashing in on a fad, rather than the actual value of Bitcoins.
Only 4.8 per 100,000? I'm not sure that justifies talks about gun control. It might, however, justify talks about how to get rid of the slums that breed so many violent people in the first place.
I just bought a 2015 Subaru WRX with electric steering, and the feel is pretty incredible. Way better and gives much more feedback than my old 2005 WRX with hydraulic steering. People are still saying good things about the electric steering in the Subaru BRZ, too.
It wasn't long ago that all American cars were very soft and all drove like boats. Whether the technology works or not has little to do with the mechanics and more to do with the tuning and manufacturer's priorities. Thankfully, Ford has shaped up a lot since the 2008 economic crash,and they'll probably do it well. I'm not sure how GM and Chrysler would fare.
Fluid simulations have shows that vortexes spinning in the opposite direction of a planet's rotation tend to continue spinning in a stable manner, and will eventually consolidate into a single vortex. Vortexes spinning with the planet's rotation will dissipate.
I assume something similar explains the hexagonal shape of the storm at the pole of Saturn.
The sad truth is that most criminals don't get caught until they brag about what they've done. Advertising services is one way of bragging.
I sure hope you're talking about issues due to horrible drivers, not issues with Windows.
Get hardware that comes with good drivers, and Windows runs on everything.
You can change a massive deficit to a surplus in a single year just by adjusting the numbers in your budget.
Does that include multi-year corporate contracts?
Not all budgets can be turned on a dime, even with a change of management.
The one that can still feed himself for a few months if he breaks a leg.
I'm not a very materialistic person and I don't make much money, but I do very much understand the concepts of emergency buffers and retirement savings.
Ever heard of an autotracer? Some of the new ones work amazingly well.
If there's a vulnerability in your web browser, it really doesn't matter what OS you use.
I have huge issues with Firefox, mostly with regards to memory management. However, stability is not one of them. I have maybe one or two crashes a year, and that's with a minimal, carefully culled selection of extensions.
The big disappointment is AdBlock Plus. This extension is the source of most slowdowns, and after the v27 update, AdBlock slows Firefox down to a crawl, and sucks up so much memory that regular restarts are needed to keep the browser from going berserk due to running out of memory.
I do know that AdBlock merely aggravates Firefox's memory management issues, though, rather than causing them. On its own, Firefox will still choke itself to death over time, and it appears to be related to its JavaScript engine.